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θεοσεβής

Third declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: θεοσεβής θεοσεβές

Structure: θεοσεβη (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: se/bw

Sense

  1. fearing God, religious

Examples

  • ἦθόσ τε ἐπιδείκνυται θεοσεβὲσ καὶ δίκαιον καὶ καρτερικὸν καὶ εὐπρεπέσ, ἁπάσαισ τε συλλήβδην κεκοσμημένον ἀρεταῖσ· (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 4 2:3)
  • εἶτ’ αὖθισ αὖ τἄρα σοι δεῖ με δεύτερον μέλοσ χέρνιβι θεοσεβὲσ ὅσιον ἐπιβοᾶν, καλεῖν δὲ μάκαρασ, ἕνα τινὰ μόνον, εἴπερ ἱκανὸν ἕξετ’ ὄψον. (Aristophanes, Birds, Lyric-Scene, antistrophe 11)
  • τό τε θεοσεβὲσ ἅμα καὶ φιλότιμον καὶ τὸ μὴ τῶν σωμάτων ἀλλὰ τῶν τρόπων τῆσ ψυχῆσ ὄντων καλῶν γεγονὸσ ἐν ἐπιθυμίᾳ. (Plato, Laws, book 8 82:1)

Synonyms

  1. fearing God

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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